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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13
Fashions for Fair Maids.

New York Mail and Express.
Colored cotton grapes make very attractive r
sash curtains.
Very charming tea-cloths have an edging Of
Venetian lace on either end
Baby-ribbon. made into full agrette, is worn
in the hair, and is very effective.
White sofa pillows is novelty which has come
with the white framed furniture.
Cloth ribbon, so-called has a heavy mat sur
face, and makes very pretty bows
Marabout aigrettes still make the prettiest
decoration for the head on evening coifures.
The modes for spring comprise WOODEN and
velvet combinations also silk or plush with wool.
Pattern dresses in wooden are very stylish
and generally popular. and are in great variety.
Herring bone camel's hair fabrics are soft and
pliable, and in all the desirable shades, both dark
and light.
Coored Brussels net still takes the place of
white ruching for neck and sleeves of dressy
costumes.
Plain skirts will be the rule the coming sea-
son. with very long and full draperies in the
overdrsss.
Gauze sashes with colored ends are worn
gracefully arranged with light evening toilet
of China silk. =
Palm leaves form very elegant and favorta !
design in trimmings this season, both Id braid
and passementerie.
Heelless slippers of scarlet velvet are the lat
set for house-wear, and offer great temptations
for kicking them off.
Several small combs are worn in the hair iu-
stead of one good-szed one, and they are tucked
in apparently at random.
Silk and wool frise goods when Of rich quality,
very much used in the new models for walk
ing dresses for spring wear
All the new spring models have the effect Of
being made over" costumes as they are COM
posed Of two distinct fabrics.
Japanese idols and curios Of all sorts are used
for the ornamenting of umbrellas and dog whips
carried by sporty" young ladies.
Frise stripes, with plain fabric between, are
seen in some light shades, and will tighten
plain cloth suit very successfully.
The satin-strped gossamer silks are to be worn
by bridesmaids the coming season. and thesa
silks are found in all delicate shades
The cotton frise cloths, SO very stylish last
season. are to be seen again this year among the
new goods. Stripes are very stylish.
The toque bids fair to be as popular when made
of lace for the coming season as it has been this
winter when made in velvet and plush.
White wolf skins are in demand for rugs and
mats for the boudoir, which must now be as
nearly as it may be dressed in virgin white.
Bonnet pins are growing more and moro elab-
crate every day, and now are set with real stones
of value, such as diamonds. pearls and opals.
Geneva point is lace which will be much used
the coming season on washable dresses. rs 1t Is
very durable and at the same time attractive
Some of the tinsel ribbons are of tawdry effect
when seen in the shops, but make very pretty
trimming for light fabrics, such chambrey.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13
The Donkey Party.

Boston Globe.
People ought themselves to entertain each
other and in most cases they will do SO after
they have once begun; but some little thing 10
frequently needed to start them-''to break the
icer as the familiar phrase goes. One Of the best
things of this sort is the recently donkey
party. It will create considerable mystifcation
if invitations sent out under that title, pro-
vided it is new thing TO the guests invited.
Some may feel offended and stay away because
Of it. but they will be to be very sorry for it
afterwards il they do Prepare for the party by
cutting from thin dark cloth (wooen is bestl,
the figure of donkey about three feet long, and
proportionately high. Pin or haste the donkey
upon sheet. This interesting animal should
be as perfectly represented possible, with the
exception of the fact that he is made with no
tail. Then cut from the cloth as many tails as
there to be guests, and stick pin through
the upper end of each.
When the guests all assembled produce
the Sheet and pin it upon some wall where il
will have chance to hang smoothly, with as
wide and long an open space in front of it as pos
sible. The donkey should be about on a ieve i
with the shoulder of person of average height.
One OF the tails should be given to each person.
The first victim is then led up in front of the
donkey and blindfolded; he is then to walk back
ward for ten or dozen steps (according to the
| spacel, turn around three times. and then 60 and
hold the tail out before him, with the pin in po-
sision. and, without any FUN bling about it at all.
pin the tail on the place which his hand first
touches.
Any one who has ever seen the ancient game
of blowing ont the candle" will imagine the
| laughable results of these attempts, and can
guess at the shouts of laughter which will arise
as the tai gets pinned carefully to the donkeys
nose, its left ear. hind hoof, all over the sheet
and outlying wall space, e~en upon stray ar
ticles of furniture unfor innate individuals
who may be standing near
A prize should be given to the one who gets
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13

ground seems to be knocked from under the
hitherto complacent readers feet. Following
in this lead, too, comes Thomas Wentworth
Higginson in last.-.week's issue of Harpers
Bazaar with recommendation of certain
kind of food for infants deity sandwiched
into literary essay.
Literature has certainly taken on new
dangers when the books one reads are not to
be free from advertisements. With these
high examples before them, the smaller fry of
writer's will not be slow to catch the idea, and
it will presently be so that book, however
attractive and innocent in its appearance,
must be examined for hidden lads" before it
can be begun without misgivings. To reach
what should be the last chapter only to find it
continued in the next New York Romancer, or
to discover that the life of the hero was saved
by a use of somebody's safe cure-$1 per bot
tie or S. for six bottles-is the inevitable end
of all novel readers under the existing ten
dency. Advertising as system is one which
has reached high degree of elaboration, but
at its present rate of progress it is likely to
meet with objections from hitherto meek
and unresisting public
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13

oil made from it, which commands high price.
The Times says that last spring Mr.. Elder
planted about nine acres of marsh land in pep
permint. the plants costing him $63 From the
crop gathered he distilled about l40 pounds of
oil, the present price of which, at wholesale, is
So pound, thought it sometimes brings consid-
cradle more. But at SO pound the nine acres
yielded 1920 worth of peppermint oil. The re-
suit was so satisfactory that the same person
will, this year, put in thirty five acres to pep
permint, and procure machinery to distill the
oil, and others in that vicinity are preparing to
engage in the same business. The plant re-
Quires very moist soil, and the marsh lands in
some Of the northern counties peculiarly
adapted to it. The oil Is used for medicinal pur
poses
THE obituary notices and eulogies of Mr.
Beecher are very suggestive of his large human
ity and catholicity. Excepting the Congrega-
tional ministers of Chicago, who have been we'll
scourged for their offense, and an obscure Pres
byterian paper published somewhere in the
Northwest there has not been dissenting voice
In the general judgment of the great preacher.
Not only all Protestant denominations, but
Catholic priests and Hebrew rabbis have united
in earnest praise of the greatness and goodness
of his character. All who knew him personally
speak of him as friend, all who had come
within the range of his warm and magnetic pres
ence bear ready testimony to the -pervading
power of his univeral humanity. He was great
in every way, but perhaps his greatest quality
was his many sidedness and the depth and
breadth of his human sympathes
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13
MIR. Beecher's Portraits.
New York Evening Post.

rev YORK evening Post.
Mr. Beecher "had his picture taken oftener,
perhaps than any other person of his time-and
a series extending from his twenty-third to his
seventy third year is as Carlyle would say, sig
nificant of much The greatest difference ID
from twenty-three to thirty, midway in his In
dianapolis passionate. Tbs picture cf the early
time is rather sleepy looking that Of the later Is
extremely wide awake. alert, and full cf
sensibility. He had need to be uide-awake foe'
the work he took upon himself.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1887-03-13

THE South Bend Times says the cultivation of
PEPPERMINT has teen introduced on the marsh
lands of St Joseph county with decidedly sue
cessful results. The plant is cultivated for tho
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05
The Tariff.

Washington special: A gentleman in.
terested in tariff matters claims to have
received letter from Carlisle, in which
the latter states that it will be undoubted-
ly the democratic policy in the coming
congress to advocate the repeal of all the
tariff duties on sugar, as we'll as reduc-
ton of the tariff ON other articles. The
customs receipts from sugar last year ag-
gregated about ninety per cent ad valor-
em of the total importations, Or $50, 2,OOO,-
900. This alone will not reduce the sur
plus as much as is desired, but with the
addition of the tax received from tobacco
(about $4,000, ,OO0) would approximate
the amount considered necessary. The
democrats are not likely to be a unit,
however, on the tobacco question. Rep
resentatives of the Louisiana sugar inter-
ests are quite concerned at the situation.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05
Railroad Notes

1ta1lrOaU NOTES.
The rate of seventy five per cent of
published stock rates with a minimum
of $40 per carr applying on bulls, stock
cattle and stock sheep west bound, expir-
ing Nov. 1, 1887, has been extended to
cover shipments forwarded prior to Dec.
/, 1887.
George S. Marsh, assistant general tick
ct and passenger agent of the Northern
Pacific, has resigned and will take the
general ticket and passenger agency of
the Milwaukee, Lake Shore & Western
road. 1t is reported that S. F. Boyd of
the Albert Lea route will succeed Mr..
Marsh on the Northern Pacific.
Col. J. T. Dodge, engineer -in-chief of
the Montana Central, has resigned his po-
sltlon and will be succeeded By his assist
ant, E. Fl. Becker. Col. Dodge has been
chief engineer of the Montana Central
since its organization. In 1880 he located
the Northern Pacific through the Yellow
stone valley and the Bozeman pass. In
1881 he was made division engineer of the
Rocky Mountain division. which position
he held until the completion of the road
Mr.. Becker was his assistant on the Rocky
Mountain division and had charge of the
Muir tunnel during construction.
The interstate commerce commission
has rendered decision in the case of w.
W. Smith vs.. the Northern Pacific railway
company, of whith complaint was made
that the company had heen accustomed
to sell tickets to land seekers or explorers
at about half rates. The commission de-
cides that the interstate law does not per
NIT the sale Of tickets to any class of peo-
pie at rates different to those established
for the general public. The claim that
the settlement of the western territories
should be promoted by special facilities
of transportation is proper to be addressed
to the Legislative body, but not for con-
sideration in interpreting the statute. The
company is able by excursion rates, open
to all, and the making of an allowance
upon the price of its land, to accomplish
its objects without violation of the law.
The Northern Pacific company is notified
to deslst from selling special classes of
tickets at less than the regular rates
charged to the public.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05
A Terrible Explosion.

Early Tuesday morning an explosion
of gasoline occurred in the rear cellar
of Michael Newman's grocery store,
13 South Fourteenth street, st. Louis.
which lifted the two story building
from its foundation and dropped it back
again in mass of ruins, beneath which
were buried seventeen persons. There
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05
MONTANA NEWS.

w. J. McNamara of Butte was thrown
from his buggy while driving from Butte
to Walkerville and received injuries which
NAV prove fatal.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05

it as his opinion that the disease is caused
by small spider that weaves its web up
on the grass, the web as we'll as the spider
being eaten by the horse while feeding
during the night and thus cause death.
One thing that bears Mr.. Gilmore out in
his statement is the fact that range horses
are the cnes principally attacked by this
disease.
E. G. Waters, commander department
Montana, Grand Army of the Republic,
in general orders No. 6 makes the follow
ing announcements: Comrade r. C. Web
ster, being about to remove from the ter
ritory, is at his own request relieved from
duty as assistant adjutant general and act
ing assistant quartermaster general The
department commander takes this Occa-
sion to express his regrets at the loss of so
faithful and efficient an officer. Comrade
E. c. Culver is hereby appointed assistant
adjutant general and acting assistant quar-
termaster general. All communications
for department headquarters will hereafter
be addressed to Billings, NJ. I.
Timothy Lynch and Dennis O'Brien
met horrible deaths in the St. Lawrence
mine at Butte Saturday. They were blast
ing in the 800 foot level. When they
went down in the morning they took down
a fifty pound box Of giant powder Just
before the SUPPER hour the men above
heard terrible explosion and on going
to the point where Lynch and O'Brien
had been at work they found the remains
of both, literally blown to pieces. The
whole box of powder had gone off. The
circumstances of the accident will never
be known. Both men were good work
men, sober and industrious. Lynch leaves
a young wife and child in Walkerville.
O'Bricn lived in Dublin Gulch, was an
old man and leaves a wife and several
mostly grown up.
The Livingston enterprise. [volume] (Livingston, Mont.) 1883-1914, 1887-11-05

| were Michael Newman, aged SO; Mrs.
Newman, aged 40; Mamie Newman,
aged Is; Nellie Newman, aged Is; Kate
Newman, aged IL; Eddie Newman,
aged 13; Chas. Devere, Mrs. Chas. De-
we're, Hattie Brown of Columbus, Ken
lucky; Chas Eifferd. Miss Byany, and
Mrs. Beasley. The explosion was fol-
lowed by fire, which was with great
difficulty put out by the firemen, when
they began search for the dead. The
force of the explosion was terrific. The
entire block Of buildings north of and
across the alley from the building in
which the explosion took place was
gutted by the blast. The Newman
block crushed in and was covered by
the roof, which settled down upon the
ruins and formed barrier which the
rescuers had to cut away the beams and
walls which impeded the progress.
Newman's two daughters were taken
alive, but cannot recover. The rest of
the Newman family were dead. In the
same building lived Charles Devere,
travelling salesman, and wife. Visiting
them was Miss Hattie Brown, of Col
umbus, Ky. She was badly injured,
but miraculously escaped death. The
corrected list of dead and wounded by
the explosion is eight dead and three
wounded seriously.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-31
About Roots.

All roots have little mouths in the
fine tibres among their branches, where
the food of the plant is taken in. They
are so small that you could not see
them with the naked eye. The more
there are the more likely the plant is
to live.
These little mouths drink up a fluid
from the ground, that goes to nourish
every leaf and flower. Yes, and all
the fruit you eat. And they choose
just what they want, too. The apple
tree mouths know Just what will make
apples, and the strawberry mouths just
what will make strawberries.
We sometimes make mistakes about
what we should eat, but the plants
never do. There are so many different
things in the ground for the plants to
eat that they can all be supplied, and
yet grow side by side. Isn't it Won
derful? Some flowers will only grey
in the swamps; they would not grow
in any other ground, because the little
mouths in the roots could not find the
right kind of food there. Mrs G. Hall.
in Our Little Ones.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-31
FUNERAL EXPENSES.
A Clerical Society for the Promotion of
Burial Reform.

The Episcopal clergymen of New
York, under the advice of Bishop Pot
ter, have organized an association for
the promotion of burial reform The
first purpose is to do away with the eX-
trava9ance of funeral expenditures.
Most burials are unnecessarily eXpen-
sive, by reason of costly burial baskets,
and numerous carriages and people go
to an expenditure which their means do
not justify. Besides, there are sanitary
considerations, such as are leading to
the growth of the cremation sentiment.
One of the aims of the new association
will be to abolish the use of close
coflius and metallic burial cases, and
the substitution of wicker-basket or
paper-mache coverings, so that "dust
to dust" will have literal and whole
some meaning.
Bishop Potter made the following re-
marks after the various points had
been discussed at the first meeting: Il
am in entire sympathy with this move
ment, and it will receive my hearty and
active cooperation. trust the organ
ization will be 50 formed as to include
representatives of all religious de-
nominations, to the end that its work
may be made as effective and far-reach-
ing us possible. 1t will be necessary 20
bear in mind that at every step the or
ganization will be fought by powerful
combinations of tradesmen. whose in
comes this movement will tend to
diminish, and whose hostility, there
fore, may be confidently predicted. 1t
is my belief that the methods of inter-
ment at present in vogue are vicious,
and that the highest type of Christian
burial will only be attained when the
administration of cemeteries is placed
entirely in the hands Of the church, -
WilWGukee Sentinel.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-31
ON A DAKOTA TRAIN.
How Big Han Secured n Comfortable
scat in n Crowded Car.

How Big nan Secured Comfortable
Scat in n Crowded Car.
A big railroad grader who doomed up
like the late Goliath came in and sat
down in turned seat opposite q
very little man. The large gentleman
was comfortably drunk-the little man
rather looked as if he might be prohi-
bitionist. The big man snorted few
times, wiped his feet on the small mans
cushion, and then remarked:
Say! l jes' despise little, dried
up, insignifercant man,
-ah-is that SOP" said the little
man, with a weak. nerveless smile.
Commonly | eat 'em" continued
the large party in a loud voice. The
little mans smile grew more feeble and
CHASTITY.
II chaw 'em up and leave emf con-
tinued the grader fiercely. as he glared
around without appearing to notice the
small man with the dying smile. II
wouldn't hit a little, sneakin' wad of a
man that weighed less than hundred
and fifty, cause there wouldn't be
enough of him left for Il funeral; but
I've bit more'n million of emit
The little man weighed less than q
hundred and thirty, and appeared to be
growing rapidly smaller.
wy, blank their little hidesw went
on the big, big man, ''there orter be
law ag'in EN-! They got to pass it
mighty quick, though, or I'll have 'em
all killed Off"
The little man was looking at the
window out of the corners of his eyes
and contemplating a leap.
Somebody tie my hands m feet an
show me one O. these small men!"
yelled the grader as he warmed up.
''Lemme lean over an fall on him an
sqush him! Somebody hold me an lead
up small man an lemme look at him
an par'lize him! Ya--a-a-ah! Lem
me breathe on one of EN- an scorch
him.
The little man had his feet braccd
and gripped his umbrella with the en-
ergy of last hope, as he resolved to
sell his life as dearly as possible.
"War-r-r thar! Git outer my way!
Gimme one o these yere dwarfs Or I'll
bust yer CARP yelled the big man, as
he rose up and begin striking out wildly
at the air. "Show me u little man,
cause I'm hungry! Bring me one for
my supper! Hi thar! Dash me here's
one now-see me chaw him" And he
made Il lunge at the little man, who in
some unaccountable way shot up over
the back of his seat and rushed along
the aisle and out the door onto the rear
platform, where he rode to the next
station, while the big man subsidized and
spread his feet all over the opposite
seat, pulled his hat down over his eyes.
and only grunted and kicked aimlessly
at the arm of the seat when the con-
ductor came along and demanded a
ticket. II Il. Carrutb, IN Chicago Trib-
nne.
The Republican. [volume] (Oakland, Md.) 1877-current, 1887-12-31
CATARRHAL DEAFNESS.
An Affection Most Commonly Connected
With the Middle Ear.

An Affection Most Commonly Connected
With the Middle Ear.
Catarrh is an increased secretion of
mucus from the mucous membrane, due
to its Inflammation. This membrane
lines the cavities of the eyes, ears. nose,
mouth; indeed, every cavity which
opens directly or indirectly to the air.
The mucous membrane of each of these
organs is liable to Inflammation and
consequent morbid increase of mucus,
and hence we may speak of catarrh of
the stomach, bowels, bladder. The in
hammation may be acute or chronic.
AS popularity used, the word catarrh
generally refers to the mucous mem
brane of the nostl'ils, pharynx (back
mouth) and air tubes. An ordinary
'cold' in the head" is a temporary
catarrh. Catarrhal deafness is most
commonly connected with the middle
ear, the tylnpanic cavity-the portion
next beyond the drum. This cavity
opens into the mouth through the Eu-
stachian tube. and is thus supplied with
the necessary air. Now the mucous
membrane that lines this tube may
swell and close it up, in consequence of
inflammation extending from the nos
trils and pharynx. Deafness, more or
less, may be due to this closure.
Again, the mucous membrane which
lines the cavity of the middle ear may
itself be intlamed. If this is long con-
tinued, the membrane becomes thick
ened; the ossicles-the little bones that
conduct the vibrations of sound from
the drum to the nerves of the internal
ear-may be greatly interfered with;
the mucus may accumulate and be-
come solid, its fluid portion being alb
sorbed, or it may become purulent, as
in abscess, and may eat its way through
the drum. Thus deafness, in various
degrees, may result.
As to the treatment of catarrhal
deafness. we can give no other advice
than to urge an early resort to the best
expert within call. In this way alone
in many cases, can permanent, and
perhaps complete, deafness be avoided.
The medical and surgical resources are
now vastly beyond what they were
fifty years ago. But we must add, let
all vino seem specially liable to ca
tarrhal difficulties avoid exposure to
cold winds, wear flannel next to tho
skin, and, in every practicable way,
maintain high degree of general
health.
Beating" in the ear is due to an in
creased scnsitiveness of the nerve,
causing it to feel the throbbing of
some minute artery. In many cases of
ear troubles there is a ringing (tinnit-
ns) in the ears. which may be of al
most every conceivable degree and va
ricty.- Youths Companion.